Tag: Art
Famous artist and perpetual merchandize peddler Damien Hirst is working on an autobiography, but it’s missing a couple of years. Hirst is allegedly blanking on his entire 20s (the stage of cognitive development when the frontal lobes of his cerebral cortex were still forming judgement skills for the rest of his life). In the most British way possible, The Guardian reports… Unfortunately, an excessive […]
Tonight, artist Genesis P-Orridge will be reading from h/er new multimedia book of previously unreleased photos, poetry and music tonight, as part of the House of O series hosted by Japanese restaurant Maison O on the Lower East Side, home to the “secret” basement club Stardust Lounge. The book includes 69 pages of collaborative work from the “gender-erasing pandrogyne” Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and late […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Eva Papamargariti – architecture and time-based media artist currently based in Greece — presents her digital video RandomAccessData, influenced by radical utopian groups of the ’60s, post-internet art theory, Isaac Asimov and “minimalist in a rapper’s body” Kanye West. The idea […]
Christie’s latest Jean-Michel Basquiat online auction has been stopped and officially “postponed” after two of the late artist’s sisters filed a $1 million lawsuit claiming that the collection of his ex-roommate/lover Alexis Adler could include fakes. We first interviewed Adler a year ago, in her now-remodeled former squat of an apartment that she shared with Basquiat in […]
“If you are not familiar with noise as an art form — it’s a different way of appreciating and creating sound, with a decidedly idiosyncratic hands-on approach, often leading to unique and profound results,” Bob Bellerue explains on the Ende Tymes IV Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation IndieGoGo campaign page. The venue/artist studio complex Silent Barn is hosting the third […]
Last night, HBO Go crashed in the middle of too many people trying to legally watch the True Detective season finale, so some of you haven’t seen Rust and Marty ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ “L’chaim, fat-ass!” ▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ but then ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒ and ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ holy shit ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ FUUUUUUUUUUCK ▒▒▒▒▒!!!!!!▒▒… wow. Let’s catch up. Designer and illustrator Nigel Evan Dennis created a beautiful True Detective tribute page featuring […]
In time for art fair frenzy, Dis Magazine just put up a Tumblr/”infomercial” announcing an IRL pop-up shop in Manhattan that will be open for the next month. “Disown,” as their video describes it, offers “consumer products made by contemporary artists” including Ryan Trecartin, Jon Rafman, The Jogging and Hood By Air. The aesthetic /subtextual snark of the show should be familiar […]
The art fairs are upon us! Follow ANIMAL as we stumble strategically through most of most of them. Next up, The Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, a favorite. That gyrating form above is a low-res gif version of Rollin Leonard’s new video installation. Now imagine looking down at it in 4K Ultra High-definition. To create the moving image, Leonard built […]
“Today, there is no ‘offline,’” Anthony Antonellis tells ANIMAL. “The internet is always there, it just gets smaller.” Last year, we documented Anthony Antonellis getting a tiny RFID chip surgically implanted into his hand with his 10-frame, 6-color, 1-kilobyte gif signature favicon. It was the world’s first net art implant (and, allegedly, “the Mark of the Beast!!!”). Antonellis’s […]
As the debate rages on about fictional realism, it’s undeniable that many fictional people and places are so lodged in the public consciousness, that they may as well “exist.” So thoroughly suspended is our disbelief, that we don’t even consider the fact that Seinfeld’s apartment was a soundstage where the rooms didn’t even connect. In the spirit of […]
